results about their products mentioned.1 Keywords KDD Cup, competition, biology, genomics, text mining 1. BACKGROUND This paper presents a background and overview for task 1 (of 2 tasks) of the KDD Challenge [...] Mining (KDD), July 23-26, 2002. Task 1 dealt with text data-mining to pro- vide semi-automated aids for biological database curation. Alexander Yeh was the co-chair for task 1. Biomedical information exists [...] three metrics and the overall score (nor- malized to a maximum of 100%) are (“1Q” is first quartile): Evaluation Sub-Task Best 1Q Median Low Ranked-list: 84% 81% 69% 35% Yes/No curate paper: 78% 61% 58% 32% …